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Wellington Shire Council will write to Bunnings and parent company to explain the potential economic impacts of its decision to cease sourcing timber from Australian Sustainable Hardwoods in Heyfield.

New figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics have revealed the effect the COVID-19 crisis and the January bushfires have had on employment across rural and regional Victoria, and in particular Gippsland.

Heyfield is on track to become a model town for communities across Australia interested in setting up their own mini electricity grid.

A British private equity firm has been named as the major investor in the company behind the proposed Fingerboards minerals sands mine in Glenaladale.

The Mountain Cattlemen's Association of Victoria wants cattle grazing re-examined as a fire management tool.

Hardware giant Bunnings' decision to discontinue sourcing timber from VicForests is being widely condemned in Gippsland, at a time when the region is reeling from the triple hit of drought, fires and COVID-19.

A man who began sexually abusing his daughter when she was 18 months old was sentenced on Monday to 16 years in prison, after pleading guilty to 14 charges.

Hotspots in Melbourne returned to stage three social distancing restrictions overnight on Wednesday, flights have been diverted from Melbourne and an inquiry into a breach into the hotel quarantine program will be established, as Victoria continues to record significant COVID-19 case numbers through community transmission.

From midnight Wednesday night, local lockdowns will be enforced until at least July 29 in 10 postcodes areas.

All of Victoria's hardwood timber processors have formed a new association to fight the state government's decision to transition the native forest industry.

An animal rescue organisation called in to help clear out an abandoned warehouse full of donations discovered much more than it expected when volunteers turned up to the Churchill property.

Gippsland historian Peter Gardner is considered by the Royal Historical Society of Victoria as "the expert" on Angus McMillan. Mr Gardner's work has been widely referred to throughout the McMillan cairns debate, both in favour of retaining and removing the cairns. Mr Gardner submitted this piece to the Gippsland Times explaining his view.